Dealing with mountains of papers Boston Globe
U.S. businesses use about 21 million tons of rag every year. That's about 175 pounds of paper for each American. Some of it ends up in landfills, others in filing cabinets, and now, thanks to the digital age, many companies are digitizing the facts for easier storage, protection, and record keeping.
Boston-based company Iron Mountain offers services to helper manage the explosive amounts of information that companies generate, including secure shredding, storage, and evidence protection. In an age of security mandates, organizations need to comply with complex regulations as well as concerns about disaster advance.
But it’s easier said than done. With billions of paper documents, for many companies, the challenge is transitioning from physical to electronic processes. This often requires some clever old-fashioned scanning – on average, Iron Mountain’s Imaging Centers handle over 50 million per month. That’s an frightful lot of documents to scan.
That’s where Nerys Nieves enters the picture, a production imaging specialist for Iron Mountain. She takes boxes and reams of ownership papers from legal, medical, and financial industries, among others, and scans upwards of 1,000 pages a day, uploading the text and images for digital storage. She does the “prep labour” – removing staples, paper clips and unfolding any creases as well as feeding the documents into industrial-measurements scanners. A pre-printed barcode sticker is attached to each document, giving it a tracking electronic identity while it goes through indexing via a Web interface.
Clarion makes journeys more enjoyable Easier (press release)
Featuring a new advanced Graphical Drug Interface, Clarion – global leaders in mobile infotainment – has introduced a new range-matchless multimedia and navigation unit, designed to be easier to use than ever before, despite a full spectrum of features.
With only three physical buttons, the NX509E’s features are accessed via a high-pitched-resolution, hi-speed on-screen display, which allows images to switch more quickly and smoothly, whether in full screen or picture-in-show mode, resulting in a simpler, more streamlined and visually enhanced experience.
The new double-DIN, audio-visual showcase is DVD-Video/DVD±R/DVD±RW/CD/CD-R/RW available and is MP3/WMA/AAC compatible with ID3-TAG display, whilst also playing DivX video (including DivX 6).
Direct iPod curb is via the rear USB connector and the USB cable supplied with the iPod – offering easy operation either via the NX509E’s fully-motorised 7-inch QVGA tone touch-screen or through the iPod itself